The people who would ‘give Salah what he wants’ … even if it’s double our next highest earner
What are they doing with Mane whose in exactly the same situation?
Require him to post similar numbers to Salah, or offer him less money, or sell him. If we lost Mane now, I'd still back us to be competing for the league this season [it would of course be a significant blow and I don't want to pretend Mane isn't a cracking player because he is]. But if we lost Mo, I'd say we were fighting for top 4 at best.
I get the caution around 'give him what he wants' [though at times I myself throw that caution to the wind, and I probably have for the last 72 hours] but I do feel we are in a position Liverpool football Club have NEVER been in before, in that we have the best player in the world playing for us, posting numbers and doing things that are on another level entirely to the rest of the league - even the history of the league.
I can absolutely see why we shouldn't really be bending to whatever he - or more specifically his slimy twat of an agent - wants. I can see why it is probably a bad business model moving forward....but at the same time HOLY FUCK HAVE YOU SEEN HIM?
It's hard to keep a cool head about.